HaTzipporim (Empty Nesters) Film Night with Dr. Gillian Helfield
Thursday, February 5, 7:00 pm
Our HaTzipporim (Empty Nesters) group will be hosting a lively film night and discussion with renowned film professor Dr. Gillian Helfield. It will be the perfect cozy evening in the cold of winter.
Join us at a private home near Holy Blossom (location to be sent to registrants the night before the event), for the film, friends, and some light refreshments!
Details of the film will also be released the evening before the event (we want to make sure it doesn’t disappear!), but it will be related to this unique stage of life as an Empty Nester.
REGISTER HERE – limited to first 20 participants, being mindful of space.
ABOUT DR. GILLIAN HELFIELD
Dr. Gillian Helfield is an assistant professor in the Cinema and Media Arts program at York University in Toronto. She wrote her Ph.D. and has published several papers on the subject of Quebecois films of the Quiet Revolution. Other areas of academic interest are Genre Studies, Cultural Studies, Women’s Cinema, National Cinemas and Cinemas of the Diaspora. She co-authored the book Representing the Rural: Space Place and Identity in Films About the Land which explores the links between urban and rural in films spanning different eras and locations. She is also involved in eLearning and experiential education initiatives at York University, for which she has received several awards in recognition of her research and course design.
Prior to embarking on a full-time teaching career, Dr. Helfield worked in the Canadian film and television industry as a free-lance production coordinator and production manager for Atlantis Films, the Insight Production Company, Scholastic Television, Global Television, the CBC, and The Canadian Film Centre.
Apart from her teaching at York, Dr. Helfield works as a programmer for the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, a facilitator for film clubs, and as host of the monthly Holy Blossom zoom program ‘What I’m Watching’, which she started during the COVID 19 pandemic to maintain a sense of community and engagement through the participant’s shared love of cinema.
Gillian believes that films are more than just a medium of entertainment or subject for academic study: they are a reflection of life itself. She can relate everything to a movie, and she can relate every movie to some aspect of society, culture, or everyday life. And she loves nothing better than to share her knowledge, experience and unique insights with those around her.
